The Greece Historical Society is proud to announce the publication of The Pioneers of Greece, Volume 2. Authored by GHS volunteers, Marie Poinan and Jo Ann Ward Snyder, this new volume has 238 pages and is chock full of family stories and more than 1150 photographs and maps. As with the first volume, all proceeds from this book go to support the Greece Historical Society.

The book is now available to order for Christmas delivery on Amazon. We expect that our first order of 25 books will be delivered on December 18. The gift shop will be selling the book for $39, including tax. Shipping costs will be an additional $5.00.

Although the museum is closed in January and February, you will be able to pick up the books you order, on any Monday during business hours  10:00 a.m. until noon.

Pioneer family certificates will be available to our contributing families when the museum re-opens in March.

The book’s authors spent four years interviewing and researching in order to accurately portray these pioneer families and produce a volume full of local history and genealogy that is a must-have for your book collection.

Included in this volume are the following 50 pioneer families: Allen, Andrews, Beattie, Beck, Benedict, Blackwell, Bonesteel, Buckman, Budd, Burger, Burns, Michael, Button, Cason, Clarke, Coffey, Combs, Cottrell/Pike, Davis/T. Mitchell, Defendorf, English, Estes, Faker, Fall, Frisbee, Glass, Hadlock, Hannahs, Hickox, Hincher, Hopper, Justice, Keene, Marchant, McShea, Meech, Phelps, Rowley, Ruggles, Sage, Sharpe/George Quinn, Vick, Weitz, Whelehan/John Quinn, Wietz, Williams and Worboys.